Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...short, the white bricked buildings around the campus Green do not house monks. Nor do they house naughty, liquor youth. The brutal truth is: they house college men, who act almost like all college...
...shoestring budget, United Artists has produced a powerful picture. "The Well" owes its unusual impact to realistic handling of a brutal social phenomenon--the race riot. For those who haven't seen a race not build up, for those who haven't seen a bunch of plain ordinary guys turn into a pack of sadists, this picture is a must...
...city. It isn't long before gangs of teenagers start roaming the streets and smashing windows in the colored section. As the contagion spreads, the older folks join in. Negroes are dragged from their cars and worked over, and in retaliation the Negro gangs fire a warehouse. These are brutal scenes; it's hard to believe that the participants are human beings, but the same crazed mobs have been seen in St. Louis and Detroit...
Melodramatic Lesson. The brutal core of Sanctuary was the rape of a teasing little society bitch named Temple Drake, and her forced month-long stay in a "Memphis sporting house" after her drunken gentleman escort, Gowan Stevens, had abandoned her to a bunch of petty hoodlums. Temple fell in love with one of the mob named "Red," only to see him murdered...
This description could hardly be further from reality. Colombia is not a panorama of felicity, but a spectacle of violence unmatched in the Western Hemisphere. For two years, a brutal civil war, pitting the Conservative government against Liberal opponents, has ravaged great portions of the country. Upwards of 20,000 people have been killed. Farmers dispossessed by the police have formed guerrilla gangs out for vengeance and supplies (see below). Meanwhile, under a "state of siege" now 21 months old, aging (62) authoritarian Laureano Gómez rules highhandedly...